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Brazil said: “I remember his horrible swollen face next to mine. He was smiling. He thought this was fun. I was frightened and very confused. It scarred me for decades and may have prevented me from playing for the team I had loved all my life, Celtic.”

Sentencing Torbett then, Sheriff Margaret Gimblett said: “You have brought anguish and shame to one of the greatest football clubs, never mind the stress and anxiety to friends and family, including your own.

“Parents trusted you with their children who were football mad. Things were different 25 years ago, people didn’t talk about sex, and boys of the ages of 12, 13 and 14 years old were children. You knew that and betrayed that trust.”

Prior to the latest trial, victim Kenny Campbell said he was abused after Torbett was allowed back into the fold in 1980.

The Daily Record reporting on Jim Torbett being found guilty of abusing children (Image: Daily Record)

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Kenny also claimed, in graphic detail, how up to three boys were abused at the same time in his flat. A BBC programme said they had spoken to three other former Celtic Boys’ Club officials who said they were told Torbett was sacked – in 1974 – after complaints he had abused boys. But police were never called.

The documentary featured a photograph of Jock Stein presenting an award to Torbett for services to the club in 1977 – three years after he was kicked out.